Tag Archives: Intimate Recovery

What. A. Beautiful. Day. I’m home, in peace, love and nature. I am incredibly grateful, today, to be able to appreciate, so many things. My Sober Coach asks me daily, what my word for the day is and I always say, “gratitude.” To be here, laying on this hammock, right off the dock, was not […]

The lights flickered in my brain, struggling in a hospital bed, in a far away place; I was supposed to die. It appears the medical staff in that far away place, cared enough to save my life. The first week of February, 2013, I was checking out of this world. By the second week of […]

Let me walk that ledge between sane and insane. Let me remix this sequel to – Now that you have read that, let me make that head spin. I am in and out of emotional sobriety to play the most important, most challenging role, of my artistic life. Acting has always come naturally for me. […]

I thought that writing my first manuscript, Intimate Recovery was overwhelming at times, especially because the introduction took me back to the final days of the last time out, in the streets. Now, that filming has almost wrapped on the Film Short, “Intimate Recovery,” (trailer below), I have been compelled to explain my process, to get into […]

Have you ever wanted to accomplish something so bad, that you were afraid to even begin? Where do you even begin? What opposition will reveal itself and in what forms? Nobody has an opinion, until you do something that is deemed abnormal to the nine to fivers. Get a job, punch the clock, be […]

Have you ever taken a shower and felt the water did nothing more than soak in the dirt? I have done everything, from staying in longer, to taking showers on the repeat. I can barely hold my head up, to this depression, I concede. May the water melt me down, let that drain, take me […]

To be able to create, creatively, means everything to me. If I had to do things that I did not want to do, to survive, I am not sure how long I could live within those binds of misery. My book, Intimate Recovery has been the most rewarding project of my life and it continues […]

It is very rare in this day and age to tell a story without being overly produced. Storytelling, through the unique lens of a true artist, is all too often lacking, from my point of view. I was truly lucky to work with this incredibly artistic, human, over this past summer. It was so inspiring […]

Addiction is a fight that I have trained my mind and body for, a spirited fight it is. Here is the third visual based off my book, Intimate Recovery, coming Spring 2016! Third Look at “Intimate Recovery,” by Michael Dadourian from Michael Dadourian on Vimeo. Visit IntimateRecovery.com for more information and to email subscribe to […]